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DESCRIPTION:“The Future of Railroads: Safety, Workers, Community & the Environment” 
 is the title of two back-to-back conferences; the first on Saturday, March 
 14, 2015 in Richmond, California; the second on Saturday, March 21 in 
 Olympia, Washington.\n\nEveryday a tragic trail derailment occurs, often 
 transporting highly flammable Bakken Shale or Tar Sand, from North Dakota 
 or Alberta, to refineries across North America. The 47 -- preventable-- 
 deaths in Lac-Mégantic has wakened people to the dangers of oil trains and 
 the movement of trains in general through their communities. Environmental 
 activists are up-in-arms about the amounts of fossil fuels moving by rail. 
 Farmers and other shippers are concerned about the congestion that has 
 occurred in recent months, but in part to the oil boom. The rail networks 
 in the U.S. and Canada and clogged with crude-by-rail, displacing the 
 already heavy traffic of grains headed to port for export.\n\nThe public 
 generally has no idea what goes on daily on America’s railroads. Chronic 
 crew fatigue, single employee train crews, excessively long and heavy 
 trains, draconian availability policies, short staffing, limited time off 
 work create challenging safety issues of concern not just to railroaders, 
 but to the entire population.\n\nPlease join us at this cutting edge 
 conference that brings together railroad workers, environmentalists, 
 community activists and concerned workers from other sectors, in order to 
 build the movement for a safer and greener railroad, on that is more 
 responsive to the needs of workers, trackside communities, citizens in 
 general, and society as a whole.\n\nMembers of the Empire Logistics/Global 
 Supply Chains Study Group (http://thepublicschool.org/node/38423) will 
 facilitate the following workshop:\n\n    ● Energy Supply Chain 
 Inquiry\n\n    Interactive workshop where all participants will brainstorm 
 ways for solidarity to flow through the various working class sectors down 
 the chains – and model ways for strikes and direct action to flow from 
 the point of extraction to the point of consumption, including the 
 communities where the energy commodities pass through. All necessary 
 materials (maps of rail lines, rail yards, ports & refineries; flowcharts 
 of fossil fuel supply chains; etc.) will be provided.\n\nOther workshops 
 will be:\n\n    ● Railroading 101\n    Single Employee Train Crews\n    
 Importance of Teamwork & Crew Fatigue\n    The Problem with Long & Heavy 
 Trains\n\n    ● Environmentalism 101\n    Climate Change & Crude-by-Rail 
 101\n    Political Ecology 101\n\n    ● Solutionary Rail: A vision for 
 electrified higher-speed rail \n\nFor more information and to register 
 online, see the website at www.RailroadConference.org\n\n● Railroad 
 Workers United: http://railroadworkersunited.org/\n\n● Empire Logistics 
 Mapping Project: https://www.empirelogistics.org/#10/37.7783/-122.2703\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/02/26/18769224.php
SUMMARY:The Future of Railroads: Safety, Workers, Community & the Environment Conference
LOCATION:Richmond Recreation Center\n3230 Macdonald Avenue\nRichmond, CA 94804
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/02/26/18769224.php
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